Top 15 Quotes & Sayings by Tom Wilkinson

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British actor Tom Wilkinson.

Last updated on April 14, 2025.

Thomas Geoffrey Wilkinson is an English actor of film, television, and stage. He has received various accolades throughout his career, including a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe, a Primetime Emmy Award and nominations for two Academy Awards. For his supporting role in The Full Monty, he won a British Academy Award in 1997. He has twice been nominated for an Academy Award, for his roles in In the Bedroom (2001) and Michael Clayton (2007). In 2009, he won a Golden Globe and a Primetime Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Film for playing Benjamin Franklin in John Adams.

British - Actor | Born: December 12, 1948

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You don't have any kind of sense of being foolish when you are acting. When you're younger you don't want to look a fool, so you don't do things that might make you vulnerable.

Tom Wilkinson

One of the characteristics of plays that are made into films is that they can be very talky.

Tom Wilkinson

All good actors are easy to work with. It's the ones that aren't very good who tend to be very difficult.

Tom Wilkinson

If you have something that you know is important to you and vital to you... then this will perhaps help people understand the importance of confronting it and being brave about it.

Tom Wilkinson

It's no good being great in something that goes straight to video.

Tom Wilkinson

I would recommend it to everybody, every now and again you just put a dress on, see what it feels like, because it's, its interesting. A whole complex series of thoughts and feelings assail you as you look at yourself.

Tom Wilkinson

There's only one shot you have at a movie, and that's your best shot. If you can't give it that, don't go. They're paying you! You gotta do a job for them.

Tom Wilkinson

When you're an actor you don't really know what you have to do until you see what you look like.

Tom Wilkinson

I once did a role which I couldn't rehearse in my street clothes, I had to have the character's costume on before I could rehearse it. I just couldn't think as the character unless I looked like him, or I knew that I looked like him.

Tom Wilkinson

I won't say I wouldn't be grateful and happy and delighted and thrilled to bits to receive a nomination. But I wouldn't be suicidal if it didn't happen.

Tom Wilkinson

You can't do things for money. You just can't act them. There's gotta be something about the script that you really want to do. I wouldn't do a job if I didn't think I could do the best work I possibly could.

Tom Wilkinson

Once Miramax gets involved, if they like your movie, there's a big machine that gets involved.

Tom Wilkinson

Acting for me is not that quid pro quo.

Tom Wilkinson

Most stuff you can do standing on your head.

Tom Wilkinson

If the script is telling the story well, that is your inspiration, and you do not need to go somewhere else.

Tom Wilkinson